‘The Acolyte’ Season 2? The Good News And Bad News

The Acolyte has wrapped up its first season with a finale on Tuesday, closing the Osha/Sol storyline however leaving many, many plot threads open together with ones which have big significance for the bigger Star Wars universe. However will Disney renew The Acolyte for season 2? There’s excellent news and dangerous information on that entrance based mostly on what we all know, and I’ll undergo either side as Disney works on a call.

The Dangerous Information

Price range – Estimates put this present at $180 million. That’s the price of a blockbuster film, simply, although clearly right here Disney ain’t getting any ticket gross sales. Lately, Disney appears to have realized they’re over-spending and over-producing Star Wars and Marvel content material and can reportedly reduce. Will that embody not bringing The Acolyte again for season 2 if it prices this a lot? Properly, there’s the opposite issue right here:

Viewership – Disney doesn’t launch precise figures for its exhibits, however tends to brag when they’re excessive. Nevertheless, we have now plenty of third get together analytics corporations estimating that The Acolyte is probably going the lowest-viewed Star Wars present Disney has produced, beneath even Andor, which was the least-watched earlier than this. The YouTuber and Twitter crowed could declare that it’s “as a result of the present is dangerous,” however critics and far of its newly shaped fanbase would disagree.

The apparent, primary motive it’s decrease than the remaining is, like Andor, it options no primary Star Wars characters in any respect (aside from briefly cameos within the finale) which is in contrast to the opposite, bigger sequence. The Mandalorian a minimum of paralleled a Boba Fett-type character initially, and it had Child Yoda, Grogu. The Acolyte isn’t even in the identical century as all different Star Wars content material. Even Andor has Rogue One characters and can lead immediately into that film. It was all the time a tall order to get individuals to look at a wholly new solid in a wholly new period.

The Good Information

The Excessive Republic – Disney appears to have realized that there’s solely a lot they will mine from the Skywalker period. They’re making a brand new, future-looking movie with Daisy Ridley’s Rey, however that’s after the deaths of Luke and Han, and the real-life loss of life of Carrie Fisher.

Heading again to the previous, Disney has original The Excessive Republic as a sequence of novels and that point interval is supposed to be launched in The Acolyte right here as its first live-action illustration. It might not look nice in the event that they cancelled that present on a number of cliffhangers after one season and as such, presumably kill the concept of exploring that period extra which they’ve absolutely invested into.

Dave Filoni – Filoni is kind of accountable for the path of Star Wars now, and regardless of some complaints about showrunner Leslye Headland’s story, the very fact stays that Filoni seemingly accepted basically all of this and as such, it aligns together with his imaginative and prescient of what Star Wars must be now. And if it has his help, season 2 could as nicely.

Headland’s Plan – Headland isn’t operating blind right here, and has stated in a number of interviews that she has detailed plans for season 2. Now we all know that features famed characters like Darth Plagueis and Yoda, who would seem in a second season. Her real-life spouse, Rebecca Henderson who performs Vernestra, appeared to point on Instagram that her character’s arc would certainly proceed, although clearly that shouldn’t be taken as official renewal.

It comes down as to whether Disney is keen to maintain investing in an costly present that not all that many individuals watched in an effort to proceed to develop the Excessive Republic and end some very fascinating storylines season 1 created. I genuinely have no idea what they’re going to do.

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